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The march planned to take place on the first eve of Hanukkah, and is billed as ‘Macabbi March,’ in a nod to an ancient Jewish revolt. Hamas leader Haniyeh linked the Oct 7 ‘Al-Aqsa flood’ assault with the Jewish presence on the holy site
Source: Haaretz
Israel’s police has authorized far right Jewish activists to march on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Thursday evening to demand an end to control by the Waqf, the Islamic endowment which administers the site holy site.
The activists are calling to “restore full Jewish control over the Temple Mount and Jerusalem,” against Waqf control that has traditionally declared strong opposition to any Jewish religious expression there.
The march, limited to 200 participants, is slated to follow the Flag Parade route through the Damascus Gate and the Muslim Quarter.
The mount is home of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the location of the Jewish temples in antiquity.
The demonstration, which will coincide with the first night of Hanukkah, is being billed as the Maccabi March—a nod to the Hasmonean revolt against the Seleucids and the Hellenized Jewish elite in ancient Judea, culminating in the rededication of the Holy Temple.
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“We won’t win this war only in Gaza,” Beyadenu, one of the nine groups organizing the march, stated in a video on its Facebook page railing against “the Nazis and their friends in the Waqf.”
“If there is any provocation more dangerous, more incendiary and more likely to trigger an eruption of violence in East Jerusalem and/or the West Bank and/or the Lebanese border, I can’t think of one,” Daniel Seidemann, a Jerusalem attorney specializing in the geopolitics of contemporary Jerusalem, tweeted on Monday.
At a time when some 16,000 Palestinians have been killed in the last 2 months, two-thirds women and children, & 1.8 million displaced from their homes, NO. I don't think it's a good idea to hand another $10 billion to Israel's right-wing extremist government no strings attached. pic.twitter.com/TvO5to6BjI
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 5, 2023
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Nine relatives of a CNN photojournalist were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza, the network reported Monday.
“Awful news about our colleague Ibrahim Dahman’s family: at least nine of his relatives have been killed,” CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour wrote Monday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “He’s been fearlessly reporting for CNN from Gaza since well before this war began.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-photojournalist-relatives-israeli-airstrike_n_656e84fbe4b0f3e5f44a82d8